The ethics of sightseeing /
MacCannell, Dean.
The ethics of sightseeing / The ethics of sight-seeing Dean MacCannell. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - xvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency.
9780520257832 9780520257832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010040365
Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Sightseeing business--Moral and ethical aspects.
G155. / A1M15 2011
338.4/791
The ethics of sightseeing / The ethics of sight-seeing Dean MacCannell. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - xvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency.
9780520257832 9780520257832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010040365
Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Sightseeing business--Moral and ethical aspects.
G155. / A1M15 2011
338.4/791